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A brass tablet erected by the congregation of St. George’s Church to the memory of the late Mr. E. C. Horner, for many years a lay reader and churchwarden in the Patea district, was unveiled on Thursday evening in St. George’s Church by the Ven. Archdeacon Reeve, of Wanganui, in the presence of a large congregation. Captain Joseph Maxwell, marine superintendent at Auckland for the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, completed fifty years’ service with the company on Sunday. He joined the ship City of Dunedin as an apprentice on September 10, 1872, when he was eighteen years old. Ip 1884 he received the command of the ship Gamaru, and his subsequent commands were the Mamari, the company’s first cargo-carrying steamer, the Tokoinani, the Mhtatua, the second Mamari, and the Pakeha. He .was appointed to his present position in 1911.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1922, Page 4
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141PERSONAL. Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1922, Page 4
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